Awesome

this is sooooo awesome!!!! I'm typing this blog post from the apple store in west edmonton mall. I love the bluetooth keyboard and the magic mouse that come with the iMac that I am using! and I have reached the verdict that instead of getting a white macbook I will now get a macbook pro for an extra 100 dollars. I feel AWESOME typing on this!

Daily Journal 04-21-10

Today was one of favourite days yet, because dad and I went out and played one of our most favourite sports, golf. And I shot my best bad scorre yet, 21 over par for 9 holes. Something that was sort of amusing and different at the golf course was at the first tee there was a sign that said "beware of rattle snakes!" what we are used to at the dunes is beware of bears, just a little different. Although we never managed to se one. Here is a good link for a picture of the sign, http://www.flickr.com/photos/47307909@N02/4542286282/. I never thought that I would say this in Phoenix but today ti got soo windy I got cold! So then I came home and had a nap under a warm blanket.

Daily journal 04-20-10

Today was quite a pleasant day, we got up did work then we played in the pool. After lunch and playing in the pool some more my grampa my dad and I went to the rental car place to rent a car for my grampa. He got a Toyota sienna and it has all the AWESOME bells and whistles. From the backseat behind the driver I can control the AC and the heat, AWESOME!!! And it has built in sun-screens in the windows, it also has rear windows that go down and they go down automatically I've never seen that in a van. I can also control how much legroom for the second row and the most room is probably 3 feet, it feels soo good. To make the day even better our grandparents are here and they made the day even better.:-)

Daily Journal 04-19-10

Today was exactly like yesterday except for these two things. 1) we started today off with homework and 2) our gram and grampa are coming today, sooooo exciting! I guess because there hasn't really been anything exciting, that is all for today. Bye

Daily Journal 04-18-10

Today was almost exactly like yesterday, except I didn't get sunburnt. And today for the last 2-3 hours it has been just my dad, Spencer and I hanging out at the house while my mom, my auntie, Pep and Ashten are grocery shopping. Two very enjoyable things about this are I have been playing with my mom's iPad the entire time and plan to continue until she gets home, and I don't have to be shopping This blog post is early for the reason I probably won't bother typing it tonight (even though I'm allowed to do it on my mom's iPad) and what we have done for the first half of the day will mirror what we do for the rest of the day. And really all we have done is relax in and by the pool and relax in the house. Being able to sum up our whole day in one sentence tells me that it is time to finish this hot post, bye :). Oh no, the AC just shut off, oh well :(

Daily Journal 04-17-10

Today was a very nice day. Espcially because our cousins came here to visit us last night, and because it is my sisters 8th birthday. The majority of our day was spent in and by the pool. Most of this time was very nice, but for the last 20 minutes of being outdide and me sun-tanning I got a tremendous sunburn. Luckily when we went to the Dominican republic in may of 2008 my mom discovered that putting coconut oil on sunburn really helps aid in the healing, so I got lathered up in that and it smells good to boot. So anyways I got lathered up in oil that then we ate a very good supper, chili cheese dogs, Mmmmmmm! After that we went swimming again and I got lathered up in coconut oil and we went for a nice walk. Then that brings us to now with me typing this journal, again, on my mom's iPad and my cosines Spencer watching videos on my moms iPod my sister and my cousin Ashten putting stickers in a book my dad, auntie and my mom reading. And once again I will tell you when it is set up what the link to my flickr page is.

Daily Journal 04-16-10

Yet again I am sorry that I have not been making journal entries fr the last few days. I have not been very busy, frankly I've just been very lazy. We haven't been doing very much stuff except go to the Phoenix zoo and do more shopping and go to bestbuy today. But I will get to all of those things later.
For now I will just be talking about today. So here is the journal for today;
This morning we got up and ate breakfast, then we went on today's shopping excursion. This of all our shopping excursions was one of the most disappointing for my mom and the most exciting for me. The reason being for my side is we went to best buy and they had the thing that I have wanted to try since January 27 2010. The iPad! So I got to try out all of the special iPad features. But this is where the story gets very exciting, my dad bought an iPad for my mom! I love the iPad, and I have used it about 10 times more than my mom (whose of which the iPad is) and as a matter of fact I am typing this entry from her iPad.
Ok, so now that the best part of my day has been covered I will get in to what else we did today. Before we went to the best Best Buy I've ever been to we went to two stores, Last Chance and Marshalls. Going to Last Chance was quite the journey, being that what Last Chance does is take any kind of clothing of accsesory as a return and then sells it on the rack no matter how used. This was interesting, another thing in Last Chance is that it is veeeeeery busy. The line-up to buy your things went all the way around the store! So therefore we did not buy anything, but there was the Marshalls that was right beside Last Chance and that was very impressive. Everything was very cheap. When we went to the Nike store at the Arizona Mills mall there was very nice Nike swimming goggles that wre 21 dollars, at marshals they were 5.99! So we got those and mom and dad got more clothes. After that we came back home and just relaxed. Mom and Pep had a nap (and pep is still sleeping) and dad and I played with Moms iPad. This brings us to now with pep and now dad sleeping, me typing and mom making chili. We are all waiting anxiously for our cousins Ashten and Spencer come to visit us for this week. One sad thing about the week though is that it is our last week :-(

Now I will be talking about our trip to the zoo on Tuesday, and to make tying easier I will be typing as if we went to the zoo today, just an f.y.i.
Today was a very fun day, we went to the Phoenix zoo which houses lots and lots of animals, including wild ones that aren't even supposed to be there. Most of which we crows ducks and I think that the turtles in every body of water were wild. In this entry for the sake of time I will just be covering the most important things. The best part of the zoo was when we got to feed the giraffes. Their tongues are black and very strong. That was the most important thing I find and I will be talking more about the zoo later Nd uploading photos to a yet to be created flickr account. I will keep you posted.
Bye

Daily Journal 04-09-10

Today was a very laid back day. We got up this morning and ate breakfast then did work. After that we laid by and played in the pool for the rest of the day until supper, which was awesome. It was chicken, baked potatoes and the stems of broccoli, mmmmmmm. Oh and while we were by the pool we saw more hummingbirds and figured out what the vultures we saw and saw again today are called, turkey vultures. Then we went for a nice walk around the lake that is by the Estrella Mountain ranch community center. On the walk we saw lots of dead fish, yuk! After that 2.48 kilometer walk around the lake we drove over to the new developments by ours and saw only a handful of houses. Then we drove home which brings us to now watching TV.

Daily Journal 04-08-10

i just saw something very interesting on the news that I have to write about. As I was walking inside from playing in the pool I looked at the TV the news was on. The story on the news was that there is a new law that hasn't been set by the governor in Arizona but was introduced. The law is that people in Arizona over the age of 21 are legally allowed to carry guns without a permit. I personally think that this is a terrible law. Because there will be a lot more crimes and shootings. I also don't this law to be implemented in the next month because of course I'm here and I don't want to get shot while I'm on vacation!

But I could be ok with this law as long as I'm not in this state. A way that this law could be good for the state is if they train and hire more police officers. This has two advantages to the state, one is that there is more officers to catch more criminals, and two is it could be part of the economic recovery being that more jobs would be provided and more would be employed. That is a win-win!

Daily Journal 04-07-10

Sorry I have not been journalling for the last three days. My thought ever since I started to journal was I will write down all of the days events and then edit and publish the post in the night. But I have failed to do this. So I will be doing today's journal and give the most important events of the past few days. This is today's;

This was a very awesome day as we went outlet shopping, but when I woke up I was not in the mood to go shopping as I could not open my eyes they were so goopy and I could not swallow my mouth was so dry. I have for the last day felt like I was catching the cold that my sister had in the previous days. But once I got out of bed and started to wake up I felt a little better (The Advil and allergy medicine also helped!). Then we ate breakfast and off to the city of Anthem 45 minutes and 54 miles away for the outlets! The outlets had three nice things right off the bat. The fact that the parking was shaded, between every store you had to walk outside and last but not least they had my favourite store, Quicksilver. So I immediately wanted to stay for a while! And we did as we got there at 10 o'clock and then left around 2:30. I had bought 5 t-shirts, 1 pair of shorts and 6 pairs of socks. Very awesome!! Then we made the 45 minute and 54 mile drive back to Goodyear and relaxed as Dad made burgers that tasted out of this world!! Then we had a nice relaxing time in the pool. which brings us to now which is all of us laying lazily on the couch.

The last few days of non-journalling;

On Sunday we went to the outlets at Arizona mills and got a few things. For the next two days we went on an we on an awesome walk and we saw vultures on the mountain and bald eagles on the mountain as well. That brings us to today which I described up ^ there

Daily Journal 04-03-10

Today was very exciting and made me a little bit sad at the same time. The sadness came from the fact that the new iPad came out this morning at 9:00 and I didn't have enough money to buy one. But as I got over my sadness I had an extremely awesome day! This morning like yesterday morning, very relaxing. We got up, had breakfast and swam in and laid by the pool from 8 o'clock to 10. This was where all of us got very excited, we were about to go to a Major League Baseball game which just so happened to be the first MLB game for everyone in the family. It was a very awesome game we sat right behind third base and under a canopy that shielded us from the scorching sun. Although we had the canopy my mom still managed to get sunburn. The food was also amazing, minus the fact that every time we bought something it was five dollars out of pockets. One of the best items of food was this thing called "Italian Ice" it was shredded ice that was flavoured like sno-cones with the syrup. It reminded me alot of sorbet. If I was a food critique I would rate the "Italian Ice" as a 10e^120 as it came in little plastic baseball helmets, one of the highlights of the game! Something that was a little disappointing about the game was because it was a spring training game it didn't go to a tenth inning when at the end of the ninth it was tied 10-10. So the final score 10 Cincinnati Reds and 10 for the Cleveland Indians. When the game was over we all really wanted to go to the super-target, so that is what we did. The super-target didn't really impress me as I expected lower prices and to be very different stores I've ever been to. Neither of these traits appeared as it had all the same shelving/arrangements and same brands as Zellers and I have seen lots of better prices elsewhere. Despite the fact I saw neither of the things I wanted to see I still bought a little toy for 10 dollars, it was a little finger bike that I have wanted for a long time and have never found in Grande Prairie. After we finished there we went to the store right next door called Ross Dress For Less. It very much resembled a Winners, except with even lower prices. I didn't buy anything but my mom hit a jackpot! She found 6 pairs of high-heels and two pairs of flip-flops. All of which she bought for the price of one of the 6 pairs of high-heels back in G.P. We all looked like we had been beaten with a stick and we still look that tired, so we came home and relaxed in the pool, which brings us to now where only my dad and I are awake.

Very good day!! :)

Daily Journal 04-2-10

Today, Friday, was quite a nice day, with the exception of waking up at 4:30 in the morning to find myself sleeping on the couch. After that my family and I had quite a relaxing day. The most exciting things we did today were go to the Walmart super-center and find enough food to last us for two weeks at an amazing price, and lay by and play in the pool. After we got changed we did nothing. Even for being relatively lazy we had an amazing supper, which consisted of potatoes, pork chops and green beans with leftovers. Another very awesome part of this day was in the houses backyard today I saw my first hummingbird and it was very pretty, blue, green, yellow and black. This brings us to now which is half of the family sleeping. Tomorrow will be very exciting as we are going to all of our first major league baseball game. :)

My Daily Journal 04-1-10

Today was soooo busy. This morning I was in Edmonton then went to the airport to wait for 4 hours and read the entire Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Dog Days book. Then we boarded the flight to Phoenix. After we got there and picked up ALL of our luggage and hopped on a bus to go to the rental car place, on the bus our family encountered a world series poker player that became quite fond of us. When we got to the rental place we went through all of the paper work. When we got to our car we crammed all 7 of our bags in to a toyota camry only to drive about 30 miles to our house in goodyear. I also got to watch the early episode of survivor on the plane, so I was very happy! But just as Jeff Probst was about to say the last vote the flight attendant turned off the entertainment :(

Realization....

I have realized that since the Apple iPad keynote I haven't made one post on my blog so I decided to post a post just to post. As you could maybe already tell this post is about nothing although you're still reading it. Why are you still reading this if it is about nothing? Stop reading this there is no info anymore and there wasn't any to begin with!

:)
Alex

Apple Inc.

The other day after watching the iPad keynote on the Apple website I was thinking about the sleekness of all Apple things e.g stores, products, accessories and I had also just watched a TED talk. As all of you probably know TED stands for technology entertainment and design. technology Entertainment and design having Apple and TED on my mind I sort of integrated them, saying that the best thing that describes Apple is Technology entertainment and design.

Bye :)

iPad

Oh am I ever stoked about the release of iPads which will be in late march and by then I will have about five hundred dollars us and we are going to phoenix in April so i can buy one there.

I am so excited

business email

I would just like to inform you that I now have a business email and it is;mcdoanldac@gmail.com so if you have any suggestions to my FNMI contest now send those to that account

:)cheers

My Aha moment

The other day I was looking at the Apple website and I went to the downloads section and I looked at the minimum system requirements and they all said MAC OS X 10.4 or later and there was quite a few fun games there and that is when I realized "I HATE PC'S AND I AM FOR SURE BUYING A MAC!"

First Nations Metis and Inuit contest (over)

Hi everyone this post is about this FNMI contest that I am entering to design a logo for the FNMI and it has to be relating the two cultures so if you could help me maybe if you could send an email with your logo to alexmcdonald9@gmail.golf.com that would be highly appreciated.

P.S if you send me your idea I will put a post on my blog abut your idea and I will follow your blog and I will refer you to the other people following my blog.



Thanks, cheers:)

Ballistic Guy

Hey everyone I am just posting this quick message saying please follow my friends blog; ballistic guy here is a link, http://projectilelover.blogspot.com/ thank you (he really wants more)

Apple Inc.

This just a quick post saying how much I love Apple Computers and how I can hardly wait for the launch off the Tablet so I can learn how much it is and set that as my goal being I want to buy a tablet.


P.S follow my blog

Apple tablet computer

I just found the coolest video on the anticipated release of the tablet computer from Apple Inc.